Example sentences of "set [noun pl] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a leading article in The Times put it : ‘ Undaunted by the superior timidity of the House of Lords the Court of Appeal persevered in its determination to set limits to the scope of the immunities granted to trade unions by statute . ’ |
| 2 | The type of argument exemplified by Strawson 's claim undoubtedly has a strong intuitive appeal , and versions of this approach have , ever since Kant , been popular as a means of seeking to set limits to the use of causal explanations in accounting for human affairs . |
| 3 | Yet in its turn climate goes far to set limits to the use that can be made of the physical features of the country in which we live . |
| 4 | Whenever the courts set bounds to the damages recoverable — saying that they are , or are not , too remote they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the liability of the defendant . |
| 5 | In an agricultural society poor soil conditions , often the consequence of centuries of abusive cultivation , together with the amount and nature of the rainfall , set bounds to the possibilities of progress . |
| 6 | The marginal distributions of both explanatory and response variables set limits to the size of effect that is possible ; to put this formally , we say that d is a marginal dependent measure . |
| 7 | The authorities set limits to the expansion of bank deposits . |
| 8 | These set limits to the level of contributions with the aim to prevent candidates from becoming obligated to special interest groups . |
| 9 | Finally , the Anti-Ballistic-Missile Treaty and Protocol of 1974 has limited the development of new ABMs , and the SALT Interim Agreement ( SALT I 1972 ) set limits to the growth of the strategic arsenals . |
| 10 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 11 | ‘ So he said he will have external examiners who will set tests to the children to find out whether they have learned the facts . |
| 12 | Moreover , Bukharin greatly underrates the real freedom involved in the freedom to ‘ choose one 's own master ’ , since it sets limits to the exploitation of the class as a whole . |
| 13 | strong war sets hands to the scythe , and |
| 14 | The former contradiction , which Marx describes as ‘ the fundamental contradiction of developed capitalism ’ , is one between the social character of production , with its tendency towards unlimited development of the productive forces , and the private ownership of the means of production ( and therefore private appropriation of the product ) from which derives the aim of maintaining and increasing the value of capital itself , and hence setting limits to the expansion of production . |